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the recent ipos getting hit hard, linkedin dropped 17%, pandora, the popular internet radio company dipped 8% and zillow, the real estate website fell 7%. companies like zinga and groupon they are now worried. at facebook and yelp talk of an ipo an analyst tell me it's not the right time but this may be an exception. >> unless you are an incredibly: powerful company like, say, a facebook, probably want to put off your ipo until the investor comes back to the table. right now would be a bad time. >> reporter: as for the passerbys i've spoken to, people here on main street so to speak, most say they are taking the big fall in stride. >> i'm not as concerned now as i know a lot of folks are, just stick it out and watch it day by day. >> reporter: the other element of this story is its impact on venture capitalists. many in the valley understandably concerned. uneasy about where to put their money. >> have to watch it more closely. thank you very much. >> in oakland the police chief calling for reinforcements after a stray bullet from a drive-by shooting killed a 3-year-old boy. christie smith
the recent ipos getting hit hard, linkedin dropped 17%, pandora, the popular internet radio company dipped 8% and zillow, the real estate website fell 7%. companies like zinga and groupon they are now worried. at facebook and yelp talk of an ipo an analyst tell me it's not the right time but this may be an exception. >> unless you are an incredibly: powerful company like, say, a facebook, probably want to put off your ipo until the investor comes back to the table. right now would be a...
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the white house is inviting you to submit questions through facebook or linkedin and watch it online. find out more about it on abc7news.com. >>> this morning, amber alert has been canceled but many questions remain after a 16-year-old boy reportedly kidnapped yesterday afternoon suddenly turned up free. abc7's amy hollyfield joins us live from the police department department. >> police are working this one. we ask the dispatcher to talk to the arresergeant for an update but they said the sergeant was busy. this is a picture of the boy that disappeared. 16-year-old hasan ford. they say he is safe but they haven't seen or talked with him but there is reason he has had contact with his family and he is okay. the amber alert was issued when owner of the barbershop was robbed with sawed-off shotgun. the 16-year-old works at the barbershop. the owner said he was ordered to the ground and did not want to be identified on television. >> at that point, when he figured out which key was mine after i told him which vehicle was mine, he got up and was leaving. at that point, hasan was coming in
the white house is inviting you to submit questions through facebook or linkedin and watch it online. find out more about it on abc7news.com. >>> this morning, amber alert has been canceled but many questions remain after a 16-year-old boy reportedly kidnapped yesterday afternoon suddenly turned up free. abc7's amy hollyfield joins us live from the police department department. >> police are working this one. we ask the dispatcher to talk to the arresergeant for an update but...
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i used linkedin which is like a professional social network. which is a great tool for recruiting people and connecting on a network perspective. that's my business and social. facebook i try to restrict from, you know, colleagues and business associates. so i totally agree with you. >> we really like using facebook at 20 x 200 as a way to get response from our customers. so we do, you know, different sorts of quizzes or contexts from time to time. it's a really easy way to get sort of interactive, if you will with your customers. and that's one the real strengths that we find about it. >> so i have to be honest, my -- i've noticed, you know, the broad spectrum of behavior on facebook, at least in my life. i have a large group of friends and family members who use it sort of on a regular basis. then i have some that are really afraid to share information. then i have any nephew who is sharing everything about his life to me every hour of the day. every whim, every thought that passes through his mind. it scares me a little bit. and as i know, a
i used linkedin which is like a professional social network. which is a great tool for recruiting people and connecting on a network perspective. that's my business and social. facebook i try to restrict from, you know, colleagues and business associates. so i totally agree with you. >> we really like using facebook at 20 x 200 as a way to get response from our customers. so we do, you know, different sorts of quizzes or contexts from time to time. it's a really easy way to get sort of...
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. >> -- a generation of young people who are throwing a lot of stuff out there on facebook and linkedin and everything else without the kind of concern about privacy that my generation grew up with and have sort of rubbed into it. so when we look ahead, it's not that we don't want to protect vital information, but the whole idea of, basically, americans like government when their security is threatened. they don't like government when their privacy is threatened or when their communications are threatened. so just going forward that's an interesting thing to think about, that culturally we may be evolving into a society or a world where a lot of people don't particularly care if you're tromping about in their cyberspace. >> so let me see, i should note that government executive has just published a special issue on cybersecurity and that our terrific technology web site, next gov.com, has a lot of other information in addition to what was published in this print on that topic. i think we have run out of time. there is so much more we could talk about, but we've, we've covered some very
. >> -- a generation of young people who are throwing a lot of stuff out there on facebook and linkedin and everything else without the kind of concern about privacy that my generation grew up with and have sort of rubbed into it. so when we look ahead, it's not that we don't want to protect vital information, but the whole idea of, basically, americans like government when their security is threatened. they don't like government when their privacy is threatened or when their...